On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:11:13 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> The .gvfs folder first appeared in Ubuntu several years ago. I know > that because I got hit with the same thing on my laptop, and I haven't > run Ubuntu on it for at least two years now. > > In my case I was using rdiff-backup, rather than rsync. Eventually I > figured out that a fresh install of Ubuntu would recreate the .gvfs > folder, therefore there was no real need to back it up. I added it to > my excludes file, rdiff-backup ignores it, and the backup completes > without issue. > > I also dimly recall that it was part of Gnome, not Ubuntu, but that > memory is sketchy. Yeah, it's part of Gnome; it's in Fedora, too. I exclude it from my backups and all is well. --Dale -- Hanlon's Razor: Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
